Joseph Maitland Roger

His son James Roger recalled; "He talked very little about his role during the war. But we did talk a bit when he tidied out some old materials in about 1966. I remember some old detonators going off in a dustbin. Also we went to try to find their underground hideout, but he never managed to locate it. It was very much something he felt obliged to not talk about. He had a German POW
working on his farm I know. They got on very well. One outstanding memory I have is how insistent he was on the secrecy about their existence and also how shocked he was by the brutality. He claimed that at the end of the war the man he reported to feared for his own life as he knew the whereabouts of several such groups."

He considered their role was a suicide mission had the invasion come. Joseph's wife Edith (nee Heap) and eldest son were sent to Wales. He always felt that they weren't properly demobbed at the end of the war and that some kit and explosives were retained. A few trees on the farm were felled using explosives retained.